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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. -- G. Stanley Hall
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. -- Robert Mugabe
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. -- Epictetus
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. -- Maurice Ravel
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. -- George Will
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary? -- Christoph Waltz
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. -- Adam Smith
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. -- Jurgen Habermas
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. -- Quentin Crisp
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. -- Immanuel Kant
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. -- Herbert Croly
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. -- Joseph Butler
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. -- David Bohm
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. -- Winston Churchill
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. -- George Will
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. -- Michel Onfray
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. -- Italo Calvino
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. -- Pope John Paul II
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. -- Thomas Jefferson
Facts do not constitute truth, -- Werner Herzog
Talents constitute our very essence. -- Charles Rollin
Children do not constitute anyone's property: -- Mikhail Bakunin
Numbers constitute the only universal language. -- Nathanael West
Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. -- Donna J. Haraway
Absence of failure does not constitute success. -- Chris Alexander
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness -- Charles Baudelaire
Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource... -- Julian Huxley
Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge. -- Klemens von Metternich
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. -- Peter R. Grant
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. -- Margaret Millar
Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy. -- David Galula
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. -- Hippocrates
Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. -- Emile M. Cioran
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality. -- Charles Darwin
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. -- Muriel Barbery
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others. -- Suzanne Curchod
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. -- Terry Eagleton
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. -- Aristotle
One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power. -- Merritt A. Edson
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. -- John Charles Polanyi
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. -- George Pope Morris
To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ... -- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. -- Roger Ascham
Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully! -- Lauren Myracle
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort -- Albert Einstein
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. -- Christopher Hitchens
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. -- Vicesimus Knox
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. -- Leonard Baskin
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. -- Idries Shah
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. -- Swami Vivekananda
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless. -- Gautama Buddha
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. -- Noam Chomsky
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. -- Francis Aungier
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. -- Charles Sumner
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion. -- Frederic Bastiat
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. -- Jean Genet
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. -- Leo Tolstoy
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. -- Napoleon Hill
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. -- Walter E. Williams
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. -- Orville Dewey
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art -- Maurice Ravel
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform. -- Jens Spahn
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. -- Nathanael West
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power. -- Abraham Lincoln
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. -- Samuel Smiles
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. -- James Fenton
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it. -- Algernon Sidney
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. -- Junius
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. -- Mohamed El-Erian
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. -- Earl Warren
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. -- Corliss Lamont
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox. -- Joseph Silk
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. -- Georges Bernanos
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. -- Georges Braque
Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become. -- Gordon Livingston
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. -- Voltaire
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. -- Victor Hugo
We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority. -- Vladimir Putin
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians -- Terry Pratchett
Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again. -- David A. Bednar
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. -- Frederick Douglass
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. -- Karl Marx
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. -- John Lubbock
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. -- Algernon Sidney
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. -- David Wilmot
We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. -- William Randolph Hearst
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. -- Charles Kennedy
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. -- Anthony Storr
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality -- John Stuart Mill
Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space. -- Allan Kardec
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Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica". -- Genco Gulan
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. -- Martin Van Creveld
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience. -- Marie-Louise von Franz
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. -- Lewis Mumford
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside. -- Gilles Deleuze
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. -- George W. Bush
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected. -- Martin Van Creveld
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God? -- Antony Flew
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. -- Charles Krauthammer
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. -- David O. McKay
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry. -- David Baldacci
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart. -- David Steindl-Rast

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